Happy Mac!

[packbat]

MacBook White 2.4 GHz, first impressions:

• Keyboard is weird, i.e. not the same as on the computers I'm already accustomed to. On any objective measure, however, probably quite good.
  
• Screen: marvelous improvement. Mirror rather than diffuse reflections means easier reading in the face of ambient light (at least, as far as I can tell by shining a flashlight on it) and easier reading sans backlight (i.e. by shining a flashlight on it).
  
• There seem to be a lot of magnets around. Magnetic power connector, magnetic lid closure...
  
• The new Safari is cool, but I can't figure out how to set it to "Ask me what I what done with every kind of cookie, and I'll tell you whether to trust a given site or not".
  
• "Spaces" (the multiple-desktops thing - Unix geeks have seen this ages ago) rocks. Totally.
  
• The time from "two fingers on the trackpad scrolls? ... weird." to "whee!" is surprisingly short. (whee!)

In related news, I can't seem to import my old song ratings into the new iTunes library. Ah, well.

P.S. Those of you who listened to the voicepost (hi, chanlemur!) and therefore heard about my Not-Exactly-First Foray Into The One-Mile Race (now with 100% less training!) may be interested in seeing official times (I'm #81, Robin Zimmermann, 7:44.40) and official photographs (I'm the demented-looking chap slightly left of middle).

Comments

[kirabug.livejournal.com]

On Safari, I think you have it confused with Firefox. Safari's always been very very simple in its prefs - you can accept all cookies, accept only 1st party cookies, or don't accept any cookies at all. If you click to show your cookies you can remove one or all, but you can't control them at an atomic level.

Personally, from both the tech support and the not-that-paranoid level, I prefer Safari. "Your cookies are either on, mostly on, or off" is much easier to explain to non-geeks, and well, since 80% of the sites I visit require 1st party cookies, there's not much point in not accepting them. Besides, not setting the ad cookies seems to just result in ads not aimed at me, as compared to ads that are sort of aimed at me, but that I ignore anyway.

Congrats on the new Mac!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I understand - it's probably healthier not to be setting little preferences all the time, anyway. :)

Thanks! It's making me happy so far.

(Edit: Ooh, pause button! I don't have to alt-tab or whatever to iTunes before watching YouTube!)

[explodingbat.livejournal.com]

Well done with the running!

..I couldn't believe it when i bought a Vista machine last Summer and it didn't have virtual desktops.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thankee!

Hey, this is a feature that used to be (supposedly) terrifically confusing - it's not a surprise that everyone hasn't figured it out yet. ;)

[explodingbat.livejournal.com]

What confused me terribly was trying to work out how to turn it on! In the end I gave up and now only boot windows to play games.